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The prizes included reporting on the presidential election; a fatal fire in Oakland, Calif.; and the attempts by the Russian government to assert its power.

Deborah Treisman interviews the author Colson Whitehead about “The Theresa Job,” his story from the July 26, 2021, issue of The New Yorker.

Plus: The one book he's read in the last few months, and how he just finished his next novel.

A runaway slave seeks freedom via subterranean trains in The Underground Railroad, Whitehead's powerful exploration of race and identity in America.

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad isn’t the modern slave narrative it first appears to be. It is something grander and more piercing, a dazzling antebellum anti-myth in which the fugitive’s search for freedom—now so marketable and familiar—becomes a kind of Trojan horse. Crouched within it are the never-ending nightmares of slavery’s aftermath: the bloody disappointments, usually sidelined by film and fiction, that took place between the Civil War and civil rights. In Whitehead’s…

The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist on discovering Ralph Ellison as a child, his passion for esoteric encyclopedias and why he loves World War Z

May 4 - Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize for “Nickel Boys” becoming only the fourth writer to win the prize for fiction twice

This week, TIME Magazine revealed the cover for Colson Whitehead’s next novel, Harlem Shuffle, which was—like his previous two novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys—designed by…

Just finished "Crook Manifesto," figured I'd give myself credit for it on a Colson Whitehead "ListChallenges" List, and discovered there

One of my FAVORITE things about summer is the time I have to read... I know that I can read throughout the school year as well BUT I just don't have those same big chunks of time that I do during the summer and so I try to make the most of it. This summer I read a variety of books, I honestly enjoyed them all for different reasons and today I'm sharing my favorite picks... The Farm, by Joanne Ramos The Farm was one that I couldn't put down. I've started and restarted a short summary and…